VMware Begins to Patch Bash Issues Across Product Line

Much like Heartbleed triggered vendors to issue out of band patches to remedy vulnerabilities that popped up earlier this year, Shellshock, the Bash vulnerability, has forced vendors’ hands in a similar fashion. Virtualization firm VMware issued a progress report on fixes for four different types...

VMware product updates address critical Bash security vulnerabilities

a. Bash update for multiple products. Bash libraries have been updated in multiple products to resolve multiple critical security issues, also referred to as Shellshock.The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project cve.mitre.org has assigned the identifiers CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169,...

VMSA-2014-0010:VMware product updates address CRITICAL Bash security vulnerabilities

VMSA-2014-0010.13 VMware product updates address critical Bash security vulnerabilities VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2014-0010.13 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware product updates address critical Bash security vulnerabilities VMware Security Advisor...

VMware ESXi product updates to third party libraries (VMSA-2014-0008)

VMware has updated vSphere third party libraries. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

VMware ESXi updates to third party libraries (VMSA-2014-0008) - Remote Version Check

VMware has updated ESXi third party libraries. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...

How to restore vCenter Server without a vCenter Server

Challenge The vCenter Server is not available and the vCenter Server VM needs to be restored. Solution To restore the vCenter Server, you will need to add one of the individual ESXi hosts to Veeam Backup & Replication, allowing you to target that host directly to restore the vCenter VM. Possible...

ESXi Authorization

This VT allows users to enter the information required to authorize and login into the ESXi SOAP API via HTTP. This information is used by tests that require authentication. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are...

ESXi 5.0 < Build 1918656 OpenSSL Library Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 5.0 prior to build 1918656. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library : - An error exists in the function 'ssl3readbytes' that could allow data to be injected into other sessions or allow denial of service attacks. No...

VMware Server <= 2.0.1,ESXi Server <= 3.5 Directory Traversal Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36842/info VMware products are prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because they fail to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input data. Exploiting the issue may allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information...

The KMPlayer 3.0.0.1440 .mp3 Buffer Overflow Exploit XPSP3 DEP Bypass

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/python The KMPlayer 3.0.0.1440 .mp3 Buffer Overflow Exploit XPSP3 DEP Bypass Downloaded from: http://download.cnet.com/The-KMPlayer/3000-136324-10659939.html 06 Jun 11 Cobbled together by dookie and ronin This exploit performs DEP bypass on WinXP SP3...

Task for VM on ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 fails with "VDDK Error: 1"

Article Applicability This article discusses an issue resolved in ESXi 5.5 Patch 08 and ESXi 6.0 Patch 03. If the error "VDDK error: 1 Unknown error." occurs with an ESXi host running a version more recent than ESXi 5.5 Patch 08 or ESXi 6.0 Patch 03, it is advisable to engage with both VMware...

ESXi 5.1 < Build 1900470 OpenSSL Library Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 5.1 prior to build 1900470. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library : - An error exists in the function 'ssl3readbytes' that could allow data to be injected into other sessions or allow denial of service attacks. No...

VMware high latency feature resets to 'normal' after snapshot removal

Challenge The Latency Sensitivity option resets to 'normal' after VMware snapshot removal. This behavior persists regardless of any settings. Cause This is a known issue in ESXi 5.5.x. Please see the following KB article for more information: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079787 Solution This issue wi...

VMware ESXi updates address OpenSSL security vulnerabilities (VMSA-2014-0006)

VMware product updates address OpenSSL security vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

VMware ESXi updates address OpenSSL security vulnerabilities (VMSA-2014-0006) - Remote Version Check

VMware product updates address OpenSSL security vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only if description...

VMware Patches ESXi Against OpenSSL Flaw, But Many Other Products Still Vulnerable

While the group of vulnerabilities that the OpenSSL Project patched last week hasn’t grown into the kind of mess that the Heartbleed flaw did, the vulnerabilities still affect a huge range of products. Vendors are still making their way through the patching process, and VMware has released an...

ESXi 5.5 < Build 1881737 OpenSSL Library Multiple Vulnerabilities (remote check)

The remote VMware ESXi host is 5.5 prior to build 1881737. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library : - An error exists in the function 'ssl3readbytes' that could allow data to be injected into other sessions or allow denial of service attacks. Note this...

VMware ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation (VMSA-2014-0005)

VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a vulnerability in VMware Tools which could result in a privilege escalation on Microsoft Windows 8.1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by...

VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a vulnerability in VMware Tools which could result in a privilege escalation on Microsoft Windows 8.1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2014-0005.nasl 6995 2017-08-23 11:52:03Z teissa $ VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player,...

VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a vulnerability in VMware Tools which could result in a privilege escalation on Microsoft Windows 8.1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2014-0005remote.nasl 6769 2017-07-20 09:56:33Z teissa $ VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation,...